Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 28.06.2019

Federal Law No. 104-FZ of May 29, 2019 - certain laws on basic guarantees of electoral rights and the right to participate in a referendum, as well as on acts of civil status, have been adjusted

Federal Law No. 105-FZ of May 29, 2019 - amendments to be maid into Articles 11.1 and 20 of the Federal Law on Banks and Banking Activities and also into Article 189.64 of the Federal Law on Insolvency (Bankruptcy)

Federal Law No. 106-FZ of May 29, 2019 - amendments to be maid into Article 15 of the Federal Law on the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation. Authorities of the Chamber are adjusted

Federal Law No. 110-FZ of May 29, 2019 - certain amendments shall be made into the Federal Law on the Voluntary Declaration by Individuals of Assets and Accounts (Deposits) Opened with Banks

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 658 of May 25, 2019 on approval of the Rules for recording unmanned civil aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of 0.25 kilograms to 30 kilograms imported into the Russian Federation or manufactured in the Russian Federation

Resolution of Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation No. 13 of May 28, 2019 on some issues of the application by courts of the provisions of the Budget Code of the Russian Federation related to the execution of judicial acts on the recovery of funds from the budgets of the budget system of the Russian Federation

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 246 of May 31, 2019 on the assignment to airports of the names of persons with special services to the Fatherland

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 655 of May 25, 2019 on Amendments into the Rules for Using Funds (Part of Funds) of the Maternity (Family) Capital to Improve Living Arrangements

Resolution of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 59 of May 28, 2019 - approves certain amendments into the Combined Commodity Classification of Foreign Economic Activities of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Common Customs Tariff of the Eurasian Economic Union with respect to certain types of goods in accordance with the obligations of the Russian Federation under the WTO

Review of cases considered in 2018 by regional courts involved in adoption of children by foreign citizens or stateless persons, as well as citizens of the Russian Federation permanently residing outside the territory of the Russian Federation (approved by the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on May 29, 2019)

Information of the Bank of Russia of May 31, 2019 “Financial ombudsman starts working in Russia”

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 690 of May 31, 2019 on invalidation of certain acts of the Government of the Russian Federation

The issue of the delimitation of administrative offenses during instituting administrative action against the managing organisation (approved by the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on June 5, 2019)

Review of the judicial practice of resolving disputes related to the application of the legislation on independent guarantees (approved by the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on June 5, 2019)

Oder of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 223n of November 14, 2018 on approval of the Procedure for the qualification examination of the person setting up a claim to the qualification certificate of the auditor

Order of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation No. 261n of April 17, 2019 on approval of the procedure for issue of a certificate for attracting labour resources and certificate‘s forms

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 708 of June 3, 2019 on amendments to the rules for the antimonopoly authority‘s consent to amendment the terms of the concession agreement

Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 22-P of June 6, 2019 on the case of verifying the constitutionality of the provisions of subitem 3 of Item 8 of Article 346.43, Article 346.47 and Item 1 of Article 346.48 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, as well as the provisions of the Law of the Murmansk region on the patent system taxation on the territory of the Murmansk region in connection with the complaint of citizen S.A. Glukhov

Information of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation of June 3, 2019 on the average price of Urals crude for May 2019

Federal Law No. 139-FZ of June 6, 2019 on amending the Water Code of the Russian Federation concerning the register of unfair water users and auction participants for the right to conclude a water use agreement

Federal Law No. 138-FZ of June 6, 2019 on amending the Federal Law on Mortgage (Pledge of Real Estate) and certain legal acts of the Russian Federation concerning land mortgage

Federal Law No. 137-FZ of June 6, 2019 on amending Article 251 of Part Two of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 136-FZ of June 6, 2019 on amending Article 19.24 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 135-FZ of June 6, 2019 on amending the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 134-FZ of June 6, 2019 on amending the Federal Law on the Circulation of Medicines concerning state regulation of prices for medicines included into the list of vital and most important medicines

Federal Law No. 132-FZ of June 6, 2019 on amending Article 72.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 131-FZ of June 6, 2019 on amending Article 32.1 of the Law of the Russian Federation on Mass Media and Article 19.1 and 46 of the Federal Law on Communications

Federal Law No. 130-FZ of June 6, 2019 on amending Article 9 of the Federal Law on the Protection of Legal Entities' and Individual Entrepreneurs' Rights During State Control (Supervision) and Municipal Control

Federal Law No. 129-FZ of June 6, 2019 on amending the Federal Law on the application of cash register equipment in settlements of accounts in the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 128-FZ of June 6, 2019 on amending Article 3 of the Federal Law on amending Articles 333.33 and 333.35 of Part Two of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 125-FZ of June 6, 2019 on amending Parts One and Two of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 123-FZ of June 6, 2019 on amending Articles 164 and 165 of Part Two of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 714 of June 4, 2019 on the definition of the authorized body responsible for the creation and coordination of subcontracting centres

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 725 of June 5, 2019 on amending the Rules for organising the activities of multifunctional centres for the provision of state or municipal services

Order of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation No. 121 of March 21, 2019 on approval of the methodology for determining the insurance value and amount of loss of commercial aquaculture items (culture-based fisheries)

Decision of the Governing Board of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation No. 100p of February 27, 2019 on approval of the Administrative Regulations for the provision by the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation of state services for informing insured persons about states of individual personal accounts in the system of mandatory pension insurance in accordance with federal laws on Individual (Personalised) Record Keeping in the Obligatory Pension Insurance System and on Investing Assets for Financing the Accumulative Pension in the Russian Federation

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 254 of June 6, 2019 on the health care development Strategy in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025

Information of the Federal Tax Service of June 10, 2019 “The President of Russia approved amendments to the procedure for applying web-based registers”

Order of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation No. 106 of March 27, 2019 on amending Order of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation No. 234 of July 31, 2014 on approval of the Rules for the provision of postal services

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 745 of June 8, 2019 - approves the Rules for publication of rightholder‘s applications on granting any person the opportunity to use works of science, literature, pieces of art, or items of allied rights, on a free-of-charge basis under the terms and conditions specified by the rightholder

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 750 of June 10, 2019 - approves rates and methodology of calculating large and especially large damage for the purposes of Article 258 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

Order of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation No. 790 of March 13, 2019 - endorses of the list of information to be posted as state information support for trading activities in the Russian Federation, list of goods with respect to which information on the average price level shall be published. The Order also regulates the way in which authorised state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local governments shall publish information on the status of trade and trends, as well as information on regulatory legal acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, municipal legal acts regulating relations in the field of trading activities

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 72n of May 16, 2019 on amendments into the Instructions on the procedure for drawing up and submitting annual, quarterly and monthly reports on the execution of budgets of the budgetary system of the Russian Federation, approved by Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 191n of December 28, 2010

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 73n of May 16, 2019 - approves amendments into the Instructions on the procedure for drawing up and submitting annual and quarterly financial statements of state (municipal) budgetary and autonomous institutions, endorsed by Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 33n of March 25, 2011

Report of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation of June 11, 2019 on the average price for the previous tax period for certain types of hydrocarbons produced at the new offshore hydrocarbon field for the period from May 1 to May 31, 2019

Order of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Russian Federation No. 47n of May 16, 2019 - approves new certificate forms for awarding the academic status of professor and associate professor

Information of the Bank of Russia of June 14, 2019 - the Bank of Russia decides to reduce the key rate by 25 basis points to 7.25% per annum"

Order of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation No. 4855 of December 5, 2018 - approval of the Federal Aviation Rules for preparing for flights of experimental aircraft and its crew

Letter of the Federal Tax Service No. SD-4-3/11375 of June 13, 2019 - descries data required for calculating amounts of mineral extraction tax with respect to oil, amounts of windfall profit tax, as well as amounts of excise duty on crude oil, for May 2019

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 749 of June 10, 2019 approves the list of services provided while carrying out international airfreight directly at international airports of the Russian Federation, the rendering of which shall be taxable with value-added tax at a rate of 0 percent

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 54n of April 5, 2019 provides for amendments to be made into the Regulations on Accounting PBU 16/02, approved by Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 66n of July 2, 2002

Federal Law No. 145-FZ of June 17, 2019 - amendments into the Federal Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation: the amendments are aimed at simplifying the procedure for attraction of foreigners to preparation and holding of WorldSkills professional skills championships in Russia

Federal Law No. 144-FZ of June 17, 2019 - amendments to Article 25.6 of the Federal Law on the Procedure for Exiting from and Entering into the Russian Federation and to Article 13 of the Federal Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation: the procedure for entry into and stay in Russia shall be simplified for foreign artists and scientists

Federal Law No. 143-FZ of June 17, 2019 - amendments into Article 13.21 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation: distribution of foreign newspapers and magazines without permission shall be subject to fines and penalties

Federal Law No. 142-FZ of June 17, 2019 - amendments into Article 8.32 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation: fines for violating fire safety rules in forests while emergency situations are increased

Federal Law No. 141-FZ of June 17, 2019 - amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation: strengthening administrative liability for offences in the sphere of environmental protection

Federal Law No. 140-FZ of June 17, 2019 - approves amendments to the Federal Law on Education in the Russian Federation: authorities of local power bodies with respect to the licensing of educational activities have been adjusted

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 748 of June 8, 2019: approval of the requirements for the use of documents in electronic form by tour operators, travel agents and tourists and (or) other customers when selling tourist products. The Rules are also approved for exchange of information in electronic form between tour operators, travel agents and tourists and (or) other customers

Information of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation of June 18, 2019: new export customs duties are endorsed with respect to oil and certain categories of goods produced from oil for the period from July 1, 2019 to July 31, 2019

Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation No. 267 of April 23, 2019: new forms of documents identifying the transport vehicle, and the requirements to them, are endorsed and registered with the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 150-FZ of June 17, 2019 - amendments to the Federal Law on Cadastral Activities and the Federal Law on State Registration of Real Estate:

Federal Law No. 149-FZ of June 17, 2019 approves amendments to Article 6.1 of the Federal Law on the Securities Market: certain issues are clarified with respect to activities of professional participants in the securities market when rendering investment counsulting services

Federal Law No. 147-FZ of June 17, 2019 approves amendments to be made into Part Two of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation: the amendments concern list of types of income exempted from personal income taxation

Federal Law No. 148-FZ of June 17, 2019 - amendments to the Federal Law on Licensing Certain Types of Activities: licenсes for replication of computer programs and video are cancelled

Federal Law No. 146-FZ of June 17, 2019 - amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: drunk-drivers through whose fault took place an accident shall be punished with severe fines

Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 114 of April 18, 2019: endorsement of the procedure for the road traffic monitoring

Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 24-P of June 18, 2019: a case of verifying the constitutionality of the provisions of Item 5 of part 4 of article 5 and Item 6 of part 3 of article 7 of the Federal Law on meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets (upon a citizen‘s complaint)

Order of the Federal Fund for Obligatory Medical Insurance No. 36 of February 28, 2019: approves the Procedure for arrangement and implementation of the control with respect to volumes, terms, quality and conditions of medical assistance services rendered under the obligatory medical insurance

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-21/263@ of May 24, 2019: approves the application form to be applied in case of death or destruction of items of taxation with respect to tax on individual property, as well as the procedure for filling it in, and the format for filing in electronic form statements about death or destruction of taxation items with respect to individual property tax

Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 81 of March 25, 2019: amendments to be made into the Rules for Inspection, Additional Inspection, Re-Inspection for Ensuring Transport Safety, approved by Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 227 of July 23, 2015

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 747 of June 8, 2019: approves new Rules for the forming and functioning of the unified information system of electronic vouchers, as well as the structure of the unified information system of electronic vouchers and conditions for discovering information contained in the unified information system of electronic vouchers

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. MMV-7-14/259@ of May 22, 2019: the new form for information that shall be filed in accordance with Item 9 of Article 85 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, as well as the procedure for filling it out (for branches and representative offices of international organisations)

Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation No. 68 of February 18, 2019: approval of professional activity rules governing implementartion by the association of tour operators in the field of outbound tourism and its members of functions related to the formation and use of the reserve funds

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 293 of 24 June 2019 on the extension of certain special economic measures in order to ensure the security of the Russian Federation: counter-measures shall be applied until the end of 2020

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 287 of June 21, 2019 on certain measures to ensure the national security of the Russian Federation and protection of citizens of the Russian Federation from criminal and other unlawful acts: starting from July 8, 2019, a temporary ban shall be imposed on the air transportation of citizens from Russia to Georgia; the ban also applies to the commercial traffic

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 290 of of June 24, 2019: counter-sanctions shall not apply to transit international road and railway carriages through the territory of the Russian Federation to third countries

Resolution of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 61 of April 29, 2019 on approval of rates of import customs duties of the Common Customs Tariff of the Eurasian Economic Union with respect to certain products of fruit processing

Resolution of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 67 of June 21, 2019 on approval of a rate of import customs duty of the Common Customs Tariff of the Eurasian Economic Union with respect to aniline and its salts

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 774 of June 15, 2019 on approval of the Rules for the formation of the list of alcohol-containing medical products, the activities for the manufacture and (or) circulation of which are not covered by the Federal Law on the State Regulation of the Production and Circulation of Ethyl Alcohol and Alcoholic Drinks and on Restricting the Consumption (Drinking) of Alcohol Products

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 790 of June 22, 2019 on conducting an experiment in the territory of the Russian Federation on labeling by means of identification of certain items of light industry products

Order of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation No. 371n of May 31, 2019 on amending appendices Nos 1 - 3 to Order of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation No. 832n of December 24, 2018 on distribution by the subjects of the Russian Federation for 2019 quota, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, for issuing to foreign citizens arriving in the Russian Federation on the basis of a visa, work permits and invitations to enter the Russian Federation in order to carry out labour activities

Decision of the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation No. 25 of June 25, 2019: the Constitutional Court confirmed that persons disabled since childhood shall have the right to reimbursement of expenses for nursing aid (caregiving)

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 814 of June 26, 2019 on conducting an experiment on labeling with means of identification of perfumery and eau de toilette on the territory of the Russian Federation: marking perfume and eau de toilette will protect against counterfeit

Decision of the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation No. 20 of June 25, 2019 on some issues arising in court practice when considering cases of administrative offences provided for in Chapter 12 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation - the Supreme Court has clarified certain road traffic rules

Decision of the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation No. 19 of June 25, 2019 on applicability of provisions of Chapter 47.1 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation governing the proceedings in the court of cassation

Decision of the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation No. 18 of June 25, 2019: liability under the Criminal Code shall arise only if sales of unsafe goods are a real danger to consumers

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 64n of April 30, 2019 on amending the annex to the order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 126n of June 4, 2018: the Ministry of Finance has updated the list of foreign goods that are allowed for purchases with restrictions

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 76n of May 22, 2019 on amending Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 132n of June 8, 2018 on the procedure for formation and application of codes of budget classification of the Russian Federation, its structure and assignment

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 805 of June 25, 2019 on amending the list of jobs, industries, professions, positions, specialties, in accordance with which an increase in the amount of a fixed payment to an insurance old-age pension and an insurance disability pension is established in accordance with part 14 of Article 17 of the Federal Law on Insurance Pensions

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 795 of June 22, 2019 on approval of the list of animals prohibited for keeping

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 819 of June 27, 2019 on approval of the list of cases in which the animal management and exploitation of animals included in the list of animals prohibited for keeping is allowed

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 823 of June 23, 2019 on amending the Rules for recognizing a person as disabled

Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation No. 302 of May 29, 2019 on approval of the procedure for calculating the housing market index

Federal Law No. 152-FZ of June 27, 2019 on amending Federal Law on the Contractual System in the Area of Procurement of Goods, Works and Services for Meeting State and Municipal Needs

Federal Law No. 153-FZ of June 23, 2019 on invalidation of certain provisions of Article 25 of the Federal Law on the public law company for the protection of the rights of citizens who are participants of shared construction in case of insolvency (bankruptcy) of developers and on amending certain legal acts of the Russian Federation and on amending Article 62 of the Federal Law on the state registration of immovable property